While Honda rejected him in the face of rumors that put him in MotoGP in 2023 with the best team in the world, Fermin Aldeguer He remains the fastest Moto2 rider from Australia. And the third pole in a row fell into his bag, his fifth, for a driver who has never left the podium from India. He beat his front row mates, Vietti and Manu González, by half a second.
Pedro Acostawho this Sunday serves his second match-ball for the title, is sixth in Q2 just ahead of his only rival for the title. Tony Arbolino which has to go through Q1 again. And both are pending a possible penalty against Arón Canet for failing to slow down for a yellow flag and crashing because they are both located in the second row. Finally, the Valencian had a long lap for the race and kept his fourth place on the grid.
As a result of each weekend session Acosta always decided the crown; Now we have to sign it to the race. Calculations are easy if he is top-4 or not to lose more than 13 points with Arbolino being the champion.
Irregularity hampered the campaign full, capable of winning the most dangerous races, such as rain and wind in Australia, and not getting into Q2. He saved the day again in Sepang after finishing 17th in free practice, three places from the cut, and had to make up for it in the extra 15 minutes of Q1, taking the best time. But in each session the result is always in favor of the Murcian title, unmoved by the risks that his compatriot Fermín Aldeguer takes to add to his record. He already has ten victories in Moto2, seven this year in 2023, he was on a different wavelength in Sepang, securing the title.
Since the first round Fermin Aldeguer was a step ahead of the rest, from a starting time of 2’05″288, the best of the weekend, with half a second over Vietti, González and Canet after the first run. Arbolino was sixth and Acosta tentatively 12th, but He still hasn’t said the last word.
The leader had recovered to sixth place just before his rival on his launched turn. The fall of Vietti and Canet, – this one with yellow flags under investigation – led to the cancellation of laps for the rest and for those who did not, there were no changes. Aldeguer, Vietti and González will occupy the first line and Canet, Ramírez and Acosta the second with Arbolino, Dixon and Chantra in the third.
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Source: La Verdad
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